Dallas physicians and nurses sentenced to prison for role in $11 million Medicare fraud scheme

Washington, DC, October 16, 2018—Two Dallas doctors and three nurses were sentenced yesterday in an $11.3 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for home health services.

Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, US Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas, Special Agent in Charge C.J. Porter of the US Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General’s (HHS-OIG) Dallas Region, Special Agent in Charge Eric Jackson of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, and Director of Law Enforcement David Maxwell of the Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), made the announcement